Florida Highway Patrol

A Fort Lauderdale woman has died after the semi-truck she was driving veered off the road, crashed through a chain-link fence and plummeted into a canal along Alligator Alley, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Theronica D. Fyffe, 37, was driving east along Interstate 75 about 1:10 p.m. Thursday when she inexplicably crossed over the grass median and into the westbound lanes, the agency said. The truck continued into the north grass shoulder before crashing through a chain-link fence and plunging into a canal near mile marker 84. The cab of the truck became submerged, and Fyffe had to be pulled from the water, the agency said. Fyffe was taken to Physicians Regional Hospital in...

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